Economic Development Annual Report

Annual Report 2023/2024 Mpumalanga: Department of Economic Development and Tourism - Vote 6

4.6 Programme 6: Tourism

Purpose of the Programme: To ensure tourism sector policy development, regulation and compliance and promotion of sector transformation in the Province. The Programme consists of the following sub-Programmes: • Tourism Planning • Tourism Sector Transformation The Programme contributes towards the following institutional outcome as per the Annual Performance Plan: • Inclusive, competitive and sustainable tourism industry Outcomes, Outputs, Output Indicators, Targets and Actual Achievements The programme has significantly achieved its targets for the year, including but not limited to the tourism awareness campaigns, capacity building programmes, and facilitation of strategic stakeholder engagements programmes as well as ensuring the implementation of the regional tourism integration programme like TRILAND initiative. The programme also facilitated the historic signing of a partnership arrangement with SATOVITO to empower the rural and township SMMEs in the tourism sector. However, there are those targets, which were not concluded, namely, the 360-degree tourism Feasibility Assessment and Municipal Tourism Plans, which projects will be concluded in the first quarter of the 2024/2025 financial year. The programme has responded to prioritised targeted groups such as women, youth in its service delivery. Projects such as the Tourism Careers EXPO and tourism awareness campaigns involve women and youth in their very nature. During the Tourism Month period, the department has funded and implemented the Tourism Star Grading projects whose beneficiaries include women at Thembisile Hani Local Municipality, Nkangala District.

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